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Re:Being a Developer After 40 by tribaal on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @05:42AM (#11570521)
No. On-site, in Zurich.

They have arrangements with authorities to get work permits more easily (it made a lot of debate in the press). They "import" qualified workers, paid Swiss salaries. If price was the only matter, that wouldn't happen - Google would open a development office there instead (they have smaller ones, but the Zurich office is the largest that is not in Mountain View).

Re:Being a Developer After 40 by huhtenberg on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @05:54AM (#11570567)
> No. On-site, in Zurich.

Yeah, so I assumed.

Your "very much untrue" remark is very much off the GP's point then, which was that those considering remote outsourcing to Eastern countries do that mainly for the cost reasons. Not that these countries lack the talent worth paying for when onsite.

Re:Being a Developer After 40 by tribaal on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:16AM (#11570650)
Ah, good point.

Thanks for showing me the problem with my argument.